Some women may be more resistant to Women's Day. How can they become women without getting married? Many universities simply hold 3.7 Girls' Day to draw a clear line with married women.

But whether in the legal sense or in the political sense, women actually refer to all women. I think it is necessary to correct the name "woman" and decontaminate the word "woman".

Let's first look at the origin of the word "woman".

1, ancient

It is recorded in Shuo Wen Jie Zi that "when you are a woman, you should be a woman." In other words, women refer to unmarried women. Women refer to married women, so women generally refer to women. "Women" are married and "women" are unmarried. It was not until the Qing Dynasty that they were used together to refer to women.

2. Republic of China period

Women began to be liberated and didn't want to be bound by their original father/husband's family, so women became "women".

3. Revolutionary period

At this time, everyone thought that the term "woman" was the representative of the bourgeoisie, and proposed to use the word "woman" as a title to refer to women as a whole. Many later book translations also translated women into women.

4. After the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC),

Women suddenly become political words, which means that women and the working class participate in the revolution together, and "women" naturally becomes the official title of women in official documents.

In the laws of China, women's basic rights are women's basic rights.

The Constitution provides that:

Women in People's Republic of China (PRC) enjoy equal rights with men in political, economic, cultural, social and family life. The state protects women's rights and interests, practices equal pay for equal work for men and women, and trains and selects female cadres.

The Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests also stipulates that:

No organization or individual may infringe upon the rights and interests of women in rural collective economic organizations on the grounds of unmarried, married, divorced or widowed women.

Women's right to life and health is inviolable. No drowning, abandonment or mutilation of baby girls; Discrimination and abuse of women who give birth to baby girls and infertile women are prohibited; It is forbidden to harm women by superstition, violence and other means; Abuse and abandonment of sick, disabled and elderly women are prohibited.

The women here include unmarried women, baby girls, infertile women and elderly women. It can be seen that "women" is the official title of "women" in China, which has special political significance and is a general term for women in law.

People are uncomfortable with the word "woman" mainly because the connotation of these two words in ancient times is incompatible with modern women, while the words "woman = aunt" and "death March 8" in daily life aggravate the pollution and attract the attention of young women.

If one day, women's rights are truly fully guaranteed and they have equal opportunities with men, I believe women will shout: I am a woman, I am glorious!